America’s Jewish trust crisis long predates this week’s Democratic Senate Primary in Michigan, but Abdul El-Sayed’s victory has given it a new battleground-state test. Can universities, media organizations, political parties and civic institutions address antisemitism without filtering Jewish safety through the politics of Israel and Gaza?The collapse did not begin with one candidate, one campus protest or one election. For many American Jews, it was built through years of rising antisemitic incidents, uneven institutional responses, post-October 7 campus turmoil and a media environment they increasingly see as selective in how it recognizes anti-Jewish hostility.Michigan now makes that national rupture harder...